BLATTLER SCORES FIRST AT HOME TRACK AND SECOND OF YEAR
By: Tony Paris

OSKALOOSA, IA  (July 19, 2006) -  Racing action at the Southern Iowa Speedway was sponsored by Eric Palmer Night at the races with four classes in action with the Nostalgic Stock Car Club of Iowa on hand with cars from the 60`s and seventys and even a 57 chevy in action. This was the first time at Oskaloosa for this group and it brought back memories and was a very good experience for the young and old on this night with the young drivers getting to see history and older race fans remembering the past.
In the first feature event it was the USRA Stock Cars in action for eighteen laps and Brian Mitrisin of Oskaloosa leading all eighteen laps for his second win of the 2006 season. The battle for second was a thriller with three drivers all battling for the second spot with rachels taking second from Colt Mather on the white flag lap with Mather in third and Pinkerton taking fourth.
The second feature was the Nostalgic Stock Car Club of Iowa in action for twelve laps with Jim Clayton taking the checkers in a 1966 Mercury Comet leading all twelve laps with a good battle between Brad Huff and Jamie Huff battling for second with Brad taking second in a 1964 chevelle and Jamie in a 1970 chevy nova along with Rob Koopman taking fourth in the Curt Hansen look alike car a 1968 chevy chevelle.
In the third feature it was the fifteen lap Musco Lighting USRA Modified feature with Steven Blattler taking his first win at the Southern Iowa Speedway and second in 2006. Blattler held off the always tough Brad Pinkerton of New Sharon who took second with two Washington drivers battling for third and Brandon Banks took third after working his way from thirteenth passing Steve Stewart with five laps remaining. Stewart took the fourth position.
The final feature was the USRA Hobby Stocks in action for fifteen laps and Bobby Greene of Eddyville took the eraly race lead and lead till lap three befor Nathan Wood took the lead and never looked back leading the final twelve laps for the win. Greene tried several times to put pressure on Wood but settled for second followed by last weeks winner Mike Shelton who took third after starting tenth and fourth going to Chase Mitrisin of Oskaloosa.
Next week will be the 2006 Southern Iowa Fair races on Tuesday night July 25th with the long awaited return of the Late Models after four years of waiting it will pay $2000 to win and $200 to start along with the USRA Stock Cars and USRA Hobby Stocks in action. The Wednesday night program will feature kids night sponsored by KBOE 104.9Fm of Oskaloosa with all three classes in the Casey`s General Stores Weekly Racing Series with hot laps at 7:15pm and racing to follow around 7:30pm each night for the 2006 Southern Iowa Fair in Oskaloosa.

USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Bobby Greene,Eddyville 2.Tyler Ford,Lovilia 3.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 4.Dave Breuklander,Oskaloosa 5.Lonnie Greiner,Fairfield 6.Robby Sands,Centerville 7.Danny Thrasher,Agency

Heat#2-1.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 2.Jason VanZomeren,Oskaloosa 3.Chase Mitrisin,Oskaloosa 4.Bob Lynch,Ottumwa 5.Cory Brown,Ottumwa 6.Wade Francis,Osky

Heat#3-1.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 2.Shannon Sherwood,Osky 3.AJ Johnson,Osky 4.Jared Sanders,New Sharon 5.Rick Landgrebe,Sigourney 6.Todd Reitzler,Grinnell

A-Feature 1.Wood 2.Greene 3.Shelton 4.Mitrisin 5.Gibson 6.Sherwood 7.Francis 8.Ford 9.Landgrebe 10.Sanders 11.Sands 12.Breuklander 13.Greiner 14.Brown 15.VanZomeren 16.Lynch 17.Johnson 18.Reitzler 19.Thrasher

NOSTALGIC STOCK CAR CLUB OF IOWA
Heat#1-1.Brad Huff 2.Jamie Huff 3.Jim Clayton 4.Rob Koopman 5.John Huff 6.Jim Thurston 7.Ron Fare 8.John Schroyer

A-Feature 1.Clayton 2.Brad Huff 3.Jamie Huff 4.Koopman 5.John Huff 6.Schroyer 7.Thurston 8.Fare

USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Eric Flander,Barnes City 3.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 4.Shawn Bangs,Canton,MN 5.Jim Brwon,Fremont 6.Bert McDaniel Jr.,Eldon

Heat#2-1.Colt Mather,Webster 2.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 3.Brian Mitrisin,Osky 4.Josh Newell,Osky 5.Rick Brown,Kellogg 6.Steve Landgrebe,Osky

A-Feature 1.Mitrisin 2.Rachels 3.Mather 4.Pinkerton 5.McDaniel 6.Bangs 7.Jim Brown 8.Wood 9.Flander 10.Rick Brown 11.Newell 12.Landgrebe

MUSCO LIGHTING USRA MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Terry Walker,Riverside 3.Brad Stephens,Bussey 4.Gordon Head,Des Moines 5.Dan Fetters,Montour 6.Ron Verbeek,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Steven Blattler,Oskaloosa 2.Steve Stewart,Washington 3.Greg Cox,Altoona 4.Tom Lathrop,Ottumwa 5.Josh Pruitt,Dexter 6.Tyler VandeKamp,Knoxville 7.Brandon Banks,Washington

A-Feature 1.Blattler 2.Pinkerton 3.Banks 4.Stewart 5.VerBeek 6.Stephens 7.Cox 8.Pruitt 9.VandeKamp 10.Lathrop 11.Head 12.Walker 13.Fetters